Android Garage Door Opener, part 2

[brad]

This is a follow-up to my previous post to say:

SO. FUCKING. AWESOME.

I got it all working. I now have an Android Activity (GarageDoorActivity) which interacts with an Android Service I wrote (InRangeService), letting me start and stop the service's wifi scanning task. The service gets the system WifiManager, holds a WifiLock to keep the radio

Comments

[dan_lane]

Gah, every time you post about developing for Android I want one even more. Love the idea of Growl-like notifications!

T-Mobile UK are taking their sweet time getting me a G1 review unit :(

saaaweet!

[jtrevino]

That's freak'n sweet, dude!

[aca]

Dude, you are such an epic geek. I fucking love this. :)

[matthew]

Personally I just put a garage door opener in the sleeve pocket of my riding suit. Of course, that won't stop me from using your system :D

So most importantly, how is your garage door opener wired into a web server?

[brad]

Custom webserver (little Perl script hanging off xinetd), heyu, and an X10 relay.

[brad]

And yes, arguably the x10 is the weakest link here. But I might argue a rock through a window is weaker.

I was considering putting two x10 modules in series to greatly expand the search space.

[matthew]

Can you get a wire to the garage door opener unit? It might be fun to hack up a small interface that could activate the unit and also sense the door position and maybe even the state of the electric eye.

[jojobear99]

sounds pretty cool :)